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I agree with Stubby, I never trust welded cast iron, we had at best mixed results with getting cast parts welded at work, I would take the £300 hit.

How good are Tirfors, slow, a good work out but such a good versatile tool, I’ve used mine loads.

Just out of interest what would happen if you put tarmac down straight on top of that cracked concrete.

Yip had one of them😀

Willing to chuck a few quid at it, would rather spend £4k and have it last 20 years than spend £1k and have it last a year. Just plucked these figures out of mid air and no idea if they are in the right area.

Are you thinking of a drain to help stop a waterfall running down the slope if I use tarmac?

Sorry I should have said, I took the pic standing yard side, looking towards my entrance gate which is on a down slope, at my gate there is a track with a ditch at the side, a pipe joins each of the ditch across my entrance gate. i have also not included the downward slope in my 15x3m size earlier. The downward slope bit is different as it is not rubbish concrete it is compacted stoney soil, because of the slope it doesn’t puddle, it is probably another 15m long. I suppose it would make sense to do it all in one job at 30m length. My only worry about that would be causing a torrent of water coming down the slope if I had 30m of tarmac down.

Another view of the drive, thanks everyone for input so far.

The drive is however access to my yard, so I do have the occasional 3T excavator and the occasional builders wagon running over it, it is raining just now so I will load up another pic just shortly. Agree re power washing though.

Good comprehensive answer, thank you, couple of things for me to consider there.

Interesting, never thought about that, will need to see if any does that in the back of beyond.

@peds you don’t happen to have a pic of your drive do you, I am trying to describe to my wife what it will look like but she is not as keen on the idea as I am.

It was the drive that Jack built, the concrete is not very thick and I think it is pretty knackered, it is certainly uneven as I do get a lot of puddles forming on it when it rains. Thank you for the replies.

My drive is rubbish and it annoys my wife when it rains and puddles form which do disappear but it takes best part of a day to soak through the broken concrete. The drive is about 15m x 3m and as I just mentioned the concrete slab is all cracked and uneven. i was thinking about the plastic grids and filling with a gravel from the local quarry or road scalping and wack it down, I don’t know. What do you think?

Was it used for boat launching? used to be the thing that annoyed when I ran Old Ford’s in the 80s I could keep up with the mechanical repair side of them but the rotting body work always beat me. well done on repairing it looks like you have your work cut out.